BRITISH HEROES.
[TO THE EDITOR OP THE "SPECTATOR."] SIR,—I crave the assistance of your readers in the following matter. A Bulgarian officer, who is making a collection from all countries, writes to ask me for the names of ten Englishmen, or rather Britons, who have died for their country in some specific act of heroism. It is not sufficient for them merely to have been killed in action; they must each have committed some special deed, knowing that the deed or• failure in it would lead to their death ; and that deed must have been for the benefit of their country, not of an indi- vidual. It is with grief and shame that I confess that I cannot think of more than one instance : that of Lieutenant Willoughby, R.E., at the Delhi gate. There must be many more, but in order to "save my face" before a foreigner, I am constrained to turn to your oreeiRcient columns for
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